Introduction: This essay demonstrates with respect the difference between pidgin and creole. Firstly, it defines in a short overview of what pidgin and creole is. Secondly, it shows where the word origins come from, how pidgin develops into creole and how both differentiate from each other. Body: The Pidgin language is a contact language or a lingua franca which arouses naturally. This form of a language is needed if a few groups are exposed to one another over a long period of time. It develops due to a need of communication between those groups and a lack of will, mistrust or another reason not to learn another's language. Often pidgin is derived from a higher language but only uses a few words and extends their meaning. Furthermore …show more content…
It has a very simple grammar, because it has to be easily learned. They only serve as communication for a certain vocabulary as stated above. This means they can not fulfil all the functions which are needed to be a „full“ language. This is because pidgin is a new language while creole had time to evolve. Moreover pidgin is restricted which means that it is not able to convoy meaning of abstract thoughts and feelings. A pidgin is also unable to successfully express a poetic function. New studies from Bakker have shown that pidgin has more inflectional morphology than previously assumed. A speaker's mother tongue influences one's pidgin in a distinctive …show more content…
Pidgin and creole are both contact languages with their biggest difference that creole is the mother tongue of a language community. Furthermore, creole is a developed form of pidgin, which means that creole is a "full" language and pidgin is not one. Moreover, the word origin of creole is detailed and has a long history beginning with the Latin language until the Portuguese words crioulo and criado. On the other hand pidgin’s history is not detailed. Therefore it is assumed that it is derived from the Hebrew word pidjom which has the meaning for which it was mostly used the trade. The difference of pidgin and creole is that creole uses much more inflectional meaning and you can express thoughts and feelings with
Cherokee & Yokut from the Beginning Native American tribes all have their own unique views of just how the world and civilization came to be. While some share similarities in their stories, others have a very different story to tell of how this world came to be. The Cherokee and Yokyut tribes are no different in that they have great resemblance, yet the tales are told through different contexts. The Cherokee tell of a world full of cold, vast and endless darkness (the great stone arch of the sky) where tiny creatures live within an area of the sky. Here the water beetle leapt off and discovered the water below, but the only ground was below the water.
Creoles are a result of the interactions between Africans and Europeans. “ [They] first appeared at the trading feitorias or factories” established by the Europeans in Africa. Over time they were able to act as middlemen between Europeans and Africans and even established their own language called “Guinea speech”. Unfortunately, they lost their status as middlemen when they were enslaved. Though the experience of the enslaved varied they all had less control over their lives and many of their skills had become useless and over time they were “de-skilled by the process of enslavement.”
During the time of slavery, the Chesapeake Region went through various changes in how slaves were treated in addition to their roles in society being shifted. Throughout the novel Many Thousands Gone, three different time periods illustrate the ever-changing attitudes regarding the separation of races and their roles. Each period provides an outlook on the rate of change. Slavery in the Chesapeake Region changed significantly within Religion, Domestic Life, Rights, and Crops.
“So many words were still unknown that when the butcher and the lady at the drugstore said something to me, exotic polysyllabic sounds would bloom in the midst of their sentences. Often, the speech of people in public seemed to be very loud, booming with confidence. The man behind the counter would literally ask, ‘What can I do for you?’ But by being firm and so clear, the sound of his voice said that he was a gringo; he belonged in the public society”(12). Rodriguez describes the way English sounds to him creating an image that the language was very complex to in his perspective.
Creoles strongly believed that receiving independence would give them a chance to rise their position to one of higher power. In The Independence of Latin America, Leslie Bethell explains how the Creoles “had on eye on their masters, they kept the other on their servants.” The Creoles were well aware and conscious of their social position and did not want to share their political power with people of color such as the Indians or Africans. After Spain got involved with an invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte, the Creoles could no longer count on their government to control social unrest. Aside all else, the Creoles main focus was to have power over all the social classes.
The Skin That We Speak The way a person speaks is a direct link to a person’s culture and the environment which he or she was raised in. A person’s language, skin color as well as economic status influences the way he or she is perceived by others. Lisa Delpit and eleven other educators provide different viewpoints on how language from students of different cultures, ethnicity, and even economic status can be misinterpreted due to slang and dialect or nonstandard English by the teachers as well as his or her own peers. The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy, who collected essays from a diverse group of educators and scholars to reflect on the issue of language
Creoles and poorer classes began to get frustrated with the restrictions that the government had created on the economy. Merchants were forced to sell “products at artificially low prices and buy...at artificially high prices”. (Doc C)Latin Americans were also stripped of basic trading and property rights. When this started to occur, the Creoles began to try to convince the people of America that by gaining independence, they could be ruled by a class that was born in their country. This was one of the main reasons why the Creoles began to help lead the fight for independence.
America and Guatemala are very different cultures; sometimes these cultures can be viewed in a poor light or it can be viewed in an interesting light, but I think these differences are very interesting and nice. One big difference that can be seen is that America loves upgrading technology and making technology to make life easier. In Guatemala, it is not like that. Guatemala does have some technology like smart phones and new types of cars, but if something is fine how it is, it is not upgraded and not much technology is made that would supposedly make their lives easier.
In the 16th Century, Spain became one of the European forces to reckon with. To expand even further globally, Spanish conquistadors were sent abroad to discover lands, riches, and North America and its civilizations. When the Spanish and Native American groups met one another, they judged each other, as they were both unfamiliar with the people that stood before them. The Native American and Spanish views and opinions of one another are more similar than different because when meeting and getting to know each other, neither the Spaniards nor the Native Americans saw the other group of people as human. Both groups of people thought of one another as barbaric monsters and were confused and amazed by each other’s cultures.
Political Power was fairly the most important aspect and most persuasion for the Creoles. Even though the creoles had
In Latin American Revolution before the revolution there were four main social classes; on the bottom there were the slaves and the Indians, then there were the Mulattoes (who were of African and Spanish descent) and the Mestizos (who were of Spanish and Native American descent), then the Creoles (who were of pure Spanish blood, but were born in America), and at the very top there were the Peninsulares (they were of pure Spanish descent and were born in Spain). The Creoles lead the fight against Spain because they wanted higher social status within their own lives, more political control over their own lives, and they were tired of Spain having total control over their economy. The Creoles weren 't allowed to do many things simply because they were born in America and not Spain, it didn’t matter that they were of pure European descent. Creoles were not allowed to hold political positions, only the Peninsulares were able to. For example, in 1807 only 12 of the 199 judgeships were held by Creoles, the rest were held by Peninsulares.
Haitian Vs Americans Culture According to Samuel Lagerlof “Culture is what remains when that which has been learned is entirely forgotten” (as cited in Usunied,1996, p.94). Every single country in the world possesses his own culture no culture is more important than another. They’re just different. However, Haiti’s culture differs from the United States in three major points; Values, religion, and norms.
There are two areas separating the speech. One called Monolingual Majority which are people who only speak one language. The other is known as Bilingual, which is includes the ability to speak two languages. People believe that Creole was created by French Colonist and African
As the song goes, "In 1492,in fourteen ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Before Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World, the Native Americans knew it as their home. Soon after Columbus reported back to let all of Europe know that he successfully found land, European settlers quickly followed. Every tribe was one of it 's kind, yet their cultures shared the importance of their religious practices, beliefs, and values . The Native Americans were generally very peaceful people, that is, until the Europeans invaded their land and forced them to fight back.
Seeing as language is a way of one expressing itself we can connect language to identity. As in order for one to demonstrate itself we have to be able to express our feelings and emotions and we do so through communication. Some characteristics of language is that it's dynamic, meaning that it changes constantly for example, the English people speak now is not the same English that people used to speak hundreds of years before. Language changes and modernizes itself in order to evolve and has many variations through dialects. Different language communities have certain ways of talking that will set them apart from others and those differences are known as dialects.